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Story Time – Pray for Good Mind

Once wise sage Hae was asked:
— What else do people lack to make the world better?
— They lack things that they do not ask about, — he answered. And, seeing the perplexity of a person who asked the question, explained:
— What people ask God for? For happiness, wealth, love … self-love, even talent – for the sake of success and fame. But did you hear that someone asked to make him smarter or kinder?
His companion thought and shake his head.
— That‘s it! — the sage said regretfully. — Everyone consider himself sufficiently intelligent and kind, willing himself entirely different.
And so the world does not become smarter and kinder.
Leaving, the sad companion repeated himself: “Good mind – that‘s what people do not think to ask for that the world would become better..”
But the thought to start from himself did not occur to him…